MEET HOL GUEST: Latana Thaviseth
In episode 6 of HOL, Latana joins Rita for a conversation about her trajectory into higher education coming from a legacy of her own parents being Lao/Southeast Asian refugee community leaders. Latana emphasizes the importance of education instilled in her as young child and ways she has learned how to navigate educational spaces as a 2nd generation Lao American.
Today, Latana is the Assistant Director to Stanford University’s Asian American Activities Center, a Ph.D. student at UCLA and scholar activist. Her research focuses on the experiences of Southeast Asian (American) students in community colleges and their transition into 4-year colleges/universities.
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REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE:
WTO Riots
UC Berkeley Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu
Aung San Suu Kyi
University of Washington
UCLA Equity Diversity and Inclusion Graduate Student Welcome Day
Higher Education and Organizational Change Ph.D. Program at UCLA
Masters of Arts in Asian American Studies at UCLA
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